Part 26 (2/2)

In a fewdimmer and di the eastern sky, and suddenly the light began to reappear It stayed in sight a few seconds, was gone again, and then for the third ti toward the air base

This time one of the tower operators picked up aTokyo Bay, and asked if he could see the light The pilot didn't see anything unusual

At 11:45PM, according to the logbook in the tower, one of the operators called a nearby radar site and asked if they had an unidentified target on their scopes They did

The FEAF intelligence officers who investigated the sighting made a special effort to try to find out if the radar's unidentified target and the light were the same object They deduced that they were since, when the tower operators and the radar operators coet were in the sa in the same direction

For about five minutes the radar tracked the UFO as it cut back and forth across the central part of Tokyo Bay, so so slowly that it al up to 300 miles an hour All of this tih binoculars Several times when the UFO approached the radar station--once it came within 10 miles--a radar operator went outside to find out if he could see the light but no one at the radar site ever saw it Back at the air base the tower operators had called other people and they saw the light Later on the tower ht was highly directional, like a spotlight

Soht be a lighted balloon; so, for the sake of coht on the balloon was much more ”yellowish” than the UFO and in a ht was no longer visible This gave the observers a chance to compare the size of the balloon and the size of the dark, shadowy part of the UFO Had the UFO been 10 miles away it would have been 50 feet in diaht an F-94 scraround controller sent the F-94 south of Yokohaht hiround controller had the F-94 pilot lined up and told him that he was in line for a radar run, the radar operator in the rear seat of the F-94 called out that he had a lock-on His target was at 6,000 yards, 10 degrees to the right and 10 degrees below the F-94 The lock-on was held for ninety seconds as the ground controller watched both the UFO and the F-94 round radar site Just as the target entered the ”ground clutter”--the peret near the radar station caused by the radar beaet seemed to pull aiftly from the jet interceptor At almost this exact instant the tower operators reported that they had lost visual contact with the UFO The tower called the F-94 and asked if they had seen anything visually during the chase--they hadn't The F-94 crew stayed in the area ten or fifteenor pick up any ets on their radar

Soon after the F-94 left the area, both the ground radar and the tower operators picked up the UFO again In about two et had just ”broken into three pieces” and that the three ”pieces,” spaced about a quarter of anortheast Seconds later tower operators lost sight of the light

The FEAF intelligence officers had checked every possible angle but they could offer nothing to account for the sighting

There were lots of opinions, weather targets for exa in exactly the sa the star appear to et aren't too likely--to say the least And then the sa had happened twice before inside of a an

As one of the ave said, ”It's incredible, and I can't believe it, but those boys in FEAF are in a war--they're veterans--and by da about when they say they've never seen anything like this before”

I could go into a long discourse on the possible explanations for this sighting; I heard many, but in the end there would be only one positive answer--the UFO could not be identified as so we knew about It could have been an interplanetary spaceshi+p Many people thought this was the answer and were all for sticking their necks out and establishi+ng a category of conclusions for UFO reports and labeling it spacecraft But theobject

Onto Major Dewey Fournet and two of his bosses, Colonel W A Adaeneral One of the things we talked about was a new approach to the UFO proble to prove that the ently controlled

I don't knoould get credit for originating the idea of trying to analyze the motion of the UFO's It was one of those kinds of ideas that are passed around, with everyone adding a fewa study of this idea for a long time, but we hadn't had many reports to ith; but noith the mass of data that we had accuust, the prospects of such a study looked pro

The basic aim of the study would be to learn whether the motion of the reported UFO's was random or ordered Random motion is an unordered, helter-skelteraround There is no apparent pattern or purpose to their flight paths But take, for exa around a chimney--they wheel, dart, and dip, but if you watch them closely, they have a definite pattern in their movements--an ordered ently controlled because they are catching bugs or getting in line to go down the chimney

By the fall of 1952 we had a considerable number of well-documented reports in which the UFO's made a series of maneuvers If we could prove that these maneuvers were not randos that were intelligently controlled

During our discussion Major Fournet brought up two reports in which the UFO see and wasn't just ai from Haneda AFB, japan, and the other was the incident that happened on the night of July 29, when an F-94 attean In both cases radar had established the track of the UFO

In the Haneda Incident, according to the sketch of the UFO's track, each turn the UFO s” between the turns were about the saht path as it moved back and forth over Tokyo Bay reminded me veryWorld War II ere searching for the crew of a ditched airplane The only time the UFO seriously deviated froot on its tail

The Michigan sighting was even better, however In this case there was a definite reason for every ree turn because the F-94 was closing on it head on It alternately increased and decreased its speed, but every ti in and it evidently put on speed to pull out ahead far enough to get out of range of the F-94's radar To say that this motion was random and that it was just a coincidence that the UFO ree turn when the F-94 closed in head on and that it was just a coincidence that the UFO speeded up every ti the chance of coincidence pretty hard

The idea of theto me, but ere so busy on Project Blue Book we didn't have time to do it So Major Fournet offered to look into it further and I proive him

In thevarious scientists in the US, and indirectly in Europe, telling the opinions We did this in tays In the United States we briefed various scientific et the word to the other countries, we enlisted the gratis aid of scientists ere planning to attend conferences or s in Europe We would brief these European-bound scientists on all of the aspects of the UFO problem so they could inforues

The one thing about these briefings that never failed to aain, was the interest in UFO's within scientific circles As soon as the word spread that Project Blue Book was giving official briefings to groups with the proper security clearances, we had no trouble in getting scientists to swap free advice for a briefing I overnment work and who had the proper security clearances solely because we could discuss any govern down the UFO Our briefings weren't just squeezed in either; in many instances ould arrive at a place to find that a whole day had been set aside to talk about UFO's And never once did Isaucers even though publicly these sahed off the press with answers of ”hallucinations,”

”absurd,” or ”a waste of time and money” They weren't wild-eyed fans but they were certainly interested